Looking at Stray Kids touring trend in Japan as an example, we know that Japan has a chokehold for idols to do concerts/tours.
The trend itself:
– Maniac tour 2022/2023 – 10 dates (188,414 tickets)
– 5-Star Dome tour 2023 – 10 dates (353,776 tickets)
– DominATE tour 2024/2025 – 10 dates (466,195 tickets)
– Run It tour 2026/2027 – 14 dates (already 520k tickets sold until today’s Tokyo Dome concert with another 4 stadium dates just announced – likely will reach around 620k total)
This does not include live viewing in movie theatres they have for a few years specifically for Japan and DominATE tour documentary which Japan’s sales is separated from the initial sales announcement as they aired the documentary much later in Japan.
And I see the trends that smaller groups are also doing tours are smaller halls and arenas in Japan and some of bigger names are now doing domes. We know that the answer in the same – it is about the money.
I also see groups like Treasure spending lots of time in Japan touring too. 2PM at the height of their popularity was also shipped to Japan to tour and promote back then, ending up neglecting Korean promotions towards the end.
And kpop, despite lots of discussions being that while it is a popular subgenre, it is mostly not mainstream in Japan, it has such a large subgenre that idols can do tours as big as 600k from Japan alone – SKZ itself are going up the ladder from small halls to arenas to domes and finally bigger stadiums like MUFG and Nissan.
And the main issue I have with this is – it seems like they sacrifice everywhere else for all these Japanese concerts. Sure Japan can fill up those stadiums, but looking at the recent announcement for the rest of Run It tour – it seems like Asia in general became a sacrifice (Asia as in non-Japan countries) with such a small number of concerts.
I feel like other groups seem to cover Asia much better than SKZ or is it just a specific SKZ phenomena? They even skipped lots of the Asian countries they did before in DominATE altogether. And SKZ is not even actively promoting in Japan other than those multitudes of concerts.
I saw the ticket prices for Japan is also cheaper than the rest of the tour – so other than being able to sell those tickets, is there any other particular reason why Japan is getting so much attention from kpop idols? Lots more concert dates compared to the rest of the tour even though the price is relatively cheaper. Is it like bulk sales – sell more to get more money instead of exclusivity sales by selling less but selling it expensive?
And my last point – are we seeing kpop concert recovery as ticketing for kpop concerts (barring BTS being the outlier as they are) seem to be doing quite well these days compared to the lukewarm sales and cancellations we see earlier this year?
At this point – Japan feels like the main wife while the rest of the world is the mistresses and girlfriends 😂
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